Georgia Pacific Responds to St. John's River Issue

BRADENTON – A recent guest op/ed in TBT described complaints by Environmental advocates over Georgia Pacific's Palatka, FL mill. The company took the time to respond to the piece, arguing many of the issues at hand, while describing a company standard of environmental responsibility in the communities where they do business.The letter appears below:Dear Editor, As head of public affairs for Georgia-Pacific’s Palatka Operation, I would like to respond to therecent article published in the May 30 edition of The Bradenton Times, “St Johns RiverAdvocates Ask Trustees to Protect Public Resources.” It is important to me that concernedindividuals have access to information that accurately represents this issue.The Palatka mill has discharged its treated mill effluent to Rice Creek since the facility wasconstructed in the 1940s. Rice Creek

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